Octet Stream Encoding
Method & Description 1 new Buffer(size) Allocates a new buffer of size octets. Note that the size must be no more than kMaxLength. Otherwise, a RangeError will be thrown here. 2 new Buffer(buffer) Copies the passed buffer data onto a new Buffer instance. 3 new Buffer(str[, encoding]) Allocates a new buffer containing the given str. Encoding defaults to 'utf8'.
4 buf.length Returns the size of the buffer in bytes. Note that this is not necessarily the size of the contents.
C# Octet Stream
Application/octet-stream Encoding C#
Length refers to the amount of memory allocated for the buffer object. It does not change when the contents of the buffer are changed. 5 buf.write(string[, offset][, length][, encoding]) Writes a string to the buffer at offset using the given encoding. Offset defaults to 0, encoding defaults to 'utf8'. Length is the number of bytes to write.